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Posted by Paul Squires @ 8:00 pm on 31 October, 2006.
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Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.
Mark Twain

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening

There are 10 types of people in this world; Those who understand binary and those that don't.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.

My uncle claimed to be a world war two recreationist. He wasnt. He ran a hardware store. But he didnt let that stop him from trying to invade France.

Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pacman affected our generation, we'd all run around in a dark room munching pills and listening to repetitive music

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Benjamin Franklin

I'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.

We're drowning in information, but starving for knowledge.

She wasn't that fat
Ash Hammond

If cryptography is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr Seuss, "Oh the Places You'll Go"

Only the truly intelligent know when they are being stupid.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
Benjamin Franklin

Failure: When your best just isn't enough.

Even murder has it's ugly side.
Sideshow Bob

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.
Pablo Picasso

Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.
Bertrand Russell

Man is only truly great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.
Number 6

Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself.

When all you have is an hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

When all you have is an axe, every problem looks like hours of enjoyment.

A statement of fact cannot be insolent.
Orac, Blake's Seven

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.
Socrates

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin

The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
King Farouk of Egypt

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
Italian Proverb

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas H. Huxley

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi

Things are only impossible until they're not.
Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek TNG

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
Eddie Izzard

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
Michael Pritchard

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw

There?s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.
Scott Adams


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